[mythtv-users] The dangers of automated metadata lookup

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Mon Jun 25 23:08:44 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Doug Scoular <dscoular at cisco.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just thought I'd let people know that mythmetadatalookup
> can lead to some unexpected situations...
>
> I had a rather awkward moment with mythtv the other day when
> mythmetadatalookup came across my recording of
>  "Jamie's Great Italian Escape" and used thetvdb.com
> to find the series metadata under ID 80319. Unfortunately,
> and I don't quite know why, it then decided to grab the
> artwork for that ID under themoviedb.org rather than
> using the correct images found at thetvdb.org.
>
> The result was it grabbed artwork from a rather explicit
> adult movie. Not really what you expect when you are looking
> for images of the "naked chef"... or maybe it is!
>
> Fortunately I *didn't* stumble upon this when my in-laws and
> wife's sister's family were visiting.
>
> Is there a way to, perhaps, exclude adult content being
> downloaded by the wonderful mythmetadatalookup binary ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Doug
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While I didn't look up the TMDB.org page (I'm currently at work), is
there anything in there that specifies it as adult content? Wouldn't a
better solution be to fix it so it pulls the metadata/images from the
same location (in this case, ttvdb)

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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